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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
FRIDAY, OCTOBER o.
The Daily Nebraskan
Station A. Lincoln, Nbrak
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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
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Ent a THIRTY-FIRST YEAR.
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EDITORIAL STAFF
- n aeogtrn Editor-in-chief
. MANAGING EDITORS
Evelyn 8lmp.on Art
dents have a right, and n loitinintc one, to
complain.
Students have no doubt, that instructors air
learned and know their subject, but they win
themselves no popularity and no acclaim if
they persist in deliberately making n course
difficult by asking mysterious, baffling ques
tions which the student can not interpret, let
alone answer.
Mickey Cochrane, Athletics, wishes that
someone would kidnap "Popper" Martin of the
Cardinals. The Comhuskers could stand a little
of "pepper" on tho gridiron.
New. Editor.
Wolf
Jack Erlck.on
Joe Millar
Soort. Editor
.Women'. Editor
Howard Allaway
nan
Murlln Spancep
Berenleca Hoffman
, . BUSINESS STAFF
Jck Thompaon Bu.ine.. Manager
7, " Aa.l.tant Bu.ine.. Manager.
Norman Galleher Carlyle Soren.en
Bernard Jennlng.
jMEMBERf
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Thla mm la rni...t.. i
adTcrtialng by Tht Nebraska Pro
AnoeiatioB.
Beating
The Betters.
Someone has staked a wager that before next
spring several fraternities and sororities shall
have' , gone bankrupt.. . That persoon is not
alone; for, altho there have been no other ad
vertised bets placed, there are several of the
opinion that highly financed houses n-ill go
under this .year. Those individuals state that
they cannot see how many of the organized
groups will last since it costs so nnieh to ope
' rate a fraternal lodge and since, at the same
time, living costs are lower elsewhere.
As far as actual expense is concerned, it has
always been more costly to live in a fraternity
or sorority house than outside. That is obvious
without statement, even, for one must account
for the large domicile at the disposal of in
dividuals associated with the particular groups,
as well as. reckon . with the, incidental privi
leges which those individuals immediately as
sume when they become affiliated. Such things,
while they cannot be purchased with outright
cash, must be paid for indirectly.
It is a challenge to fraternities and sorori
ties and any other organized groups for that
matter. This bet will be a victory for the one
who placed the wager if associates within the
respective groups do not rise on their hind feet
and see to it that the funds to which they eon
tribute are spent in the best manner possible,
It is an individual duty of each man and
woman to his or her organization to see that the
i drain on each treasury is as little as is neces
sal?u If finances are watched, there will be
no closwy..fli doors.
This newspaper does not intend to tell
fraternal groups how to run their business.
.No one, except the group itself, eares
whether any particular organization is caused
to close its doors. There will be. in fact, that
much less competition for the others.
The crime, however, enters following the
closing of doors, for it is then that many stu
dents will have to go home because of depleted
pockctbooks. So, while there is little concern
about the organization closing up, there is
great concern about students leaving the uni
versity. It will happen that some who have
already expended several years in scholastic
efforts will be forced to leave. The entire uni
versity is interested in those things.
To insure the substantial foundation of each
lodge, it will be necessary that uncalled for ex
penditures be curtailed. Difficult as it is to
determine just which are uncalled for expendi
tures, there are, indeed, many. Laeh fraternal
order can determine them for himself. Some
items can be budgeted to but one-half of what
they were in previous years. Others can be
done away with entirely for this year.
Ju spite of the fact that some people are anx
ious to see organized houses fall, it shall be a
calamity if even a part of them go under.
The university feels that these houses arc an
assset, especially since dormitory facilities arc
so poor.
Be on your guard, then, you organized
groups. Don't let the matter of a so-called
social rating hinder you in your determination
to keep alive and above the "red." See to it
that when next spring rolls around you will
T)e just as sound as ever, despite the bets
.' 'and wagers of prognostication. Beat the bet-
Vtersl
MORNING MAIL
77m Explains It.
TO T11K KDITOK:
So, Kdeebc, you don't like to go out to
Ag College to tnk" a class, when you know
more than half of the class must go from
the city campus ami pay bus fare or talk
some friend into hauling them out there?
When your comment appeared a few days
ago, 1 was inclined to agree with you, but
not any more. 1 know it is darn inconvenient
to get out there for a .'! o'clock, but. wouldn't
you rather do that than not take the course
at all? Admitted, 1 hat. it. is a requirement, but
some kind-hearted graduate student on this
campus told me that it is paid for by the ag
ricultural college appropriations and unless
they paid it, it wouldn't be given.
This same problem was "hashed out" a few
years ago, but for some reason or another,
the real answer is never given out, unless as
in my ease, it just "slips out." Maybe, what
I've said won't ease the pain which this in
convenience causes you, but just remember
"the things hardest 1o get in this world are
usually the most worthwhile."
A. B. C.
Economy and Entertainment.
The Barb Council is letting 1he cost of its
parties get too high. Fifty and thirty-five or
eighty-five cents per couple while dance halls
in Lincoln furnishing the best orchestras and
having the slickest floors charge on the aver
age of only one dollar per couple. One of these
charges only seventy-five cents.
High admissions cut down the crowd and
have a tendency to make the party a date
affair because boys and girls alike will not
gamble that amount of money against the
chances of getting dances when they stag it.
The Student Activities committee, of the
summer session under Prof. Lantz was able to
put across very successful parties at a cost of
ten cents per person. I know, 1 was there. So
were over four hundred others.
Expensive decorations do not add enough to
the party to merit their use. Favors the same
way.
There is one Barb party a month and it on
Saturday. This year the Ag mixers have all
been on Saturday.
There are many students who work on Sat
urday and are either too tired to dance or do
not get off work early enough to attend.
The biggest objection the Barbs have of
fered to Friday parties is that it takes a
day to decorate.
I used to help Alan illianis decorate for
a party. It is my observation that the only
thing the two score of students who worked
most of the day decorating got was the satis
faction of knowing thev had done a good deed
and a tired feeling that kept them from en-
joying the party themselves.
Back to iny old argument again. We are
able in summer school to put on successful
parties without decoorations. One dime per
person . Orchestra take all. I had just as j
much fun at these parties as T have ever had '.
at any Barb party. However I do not believe
the Barbs would have, to come down to a
dime but I do believe a quarter for men and
fifteen cents for women is enough. Besides ,
what does the council do with that money i
when if'tiO.OO gets an awfully good orchestra
during these times. Six hundred people fit'
dime per person is lhat sum and there is
usually a thousand at a really good party in
the coliseum. i
I think it is time the Student Council, the i
true representative body of the students, was
taking a hand in the affair and offering us ,
poor abused working Barbs (I don't mean !
the last) a social outlet besides church parties, j
j. m geinng so j arena to see rrniny conic
again. J here ought to he two mixers a month.
H.
KOSMET MORNING
SHOW SCHEDULED
SATURDAY, NOV. 7
(Continued from Pajje 1.)
be a number of "short" skits rang
ing from three to six minutes
which will be used between the
longer ones.
Music, singing, dancing, clever
lines -in fnct, anything original
which is entertaining and would
help make up a good variety
show. Is t he sort of material which
Kosmet Klub Is seeking, accord
ing to William McGoffin, member
of Kosmet.
It has always been the custom
for a frntrrnity and a sorority to
combine the talent In the two or
ganizations and produce a skit for
the show. Thi3 gives the ad
vantage of more variety through
tho singing and dancing of both
boj'3 and girls.
Acts Usually Musical.
Also, in tho past, there have al
ways been nets produced by fra
ternities alone and sororities alone.
Orchestras, or some kind of music
have always been secured to ac
company the acts unless they were
all talking.
Such things as piano duos, one
and two man "gag" acts, and nov
elties have to be used to compose
the shorter skit:'.
The whole morning revue has
been made up of "college vaude
ville" original nets composed and
acted by students.
INNOCENTS WILL
MEET OKLAHOMA
AT TRAIN TODAY
(Continued from Page 1.)
far more effective," he declared.
"if all students march in it, rather
than cutting across to the hotel
by a shorter route.
"Besides, the police department
has requested that the parade be
organized, and not a straggling
affair. Cars will absolutely be
banned," ho said.
BURNETT ANNOUNCES
SCHOLARSHIP PRIZES
(Continued from Page 1.)
ton, D. C. Application forms will
be mailed by the secretary on re
quest or may be obtained from
the nearest director of the board.
Walker Founds History Prizes.
The two prizes offered annually
by tho Boston society of natural
history were founded by the late
Dr. William Johnson Walker. For
the best memoir presented a prize
ranging from S60 to $100 may be
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BILL LEHMAN, "Prop."
Pro lesson and
Their Baffling Questions.
... IThere are profs that make us happy, there
tare profs that, make us blue, but the profs
that fill our hearts with anguish are the profs
".""who say, "I'm asking you."
Upon the Nebraska campus there is a small
and select group ol processors who stem to
delight m asking hard-working students par
... ticularly baffling questions. The group, it is
necessary to add, is m the minority, but never
- theless a certain number of students each year
are required to take courses under the mys-terious-question
propounded.
These learned people sit before their classes
droning out facts and then suddenly, without
warning, they clothe a simple question in the
most abstract terms and call on some un
suspecting victim to answer. The student, a
little bewildered, says, "I don't understand
vyour question." Whereupon the professor
smiles mysteriously or dangerously, depending
... upon the individual and either calls upon the
next person or withers the class with a glance
and says, -"I am sure it would be perfectly
clear if you were familiar with the subject."
It seems that professors could be of a little
assistance to pupils along this line and ask
questions with a little more care. They should
be able to ask the question in such terms that
the student will be able to understand.
Most students do not object to answering
questions they can understand. That, is what
they are here for. Rut when they are required
to figure out puzzles before answering, stu-i
'Beautiful Young Idiots."
Edna Ferber returned recently from a trip
to Europe and lamented tlnif American stu
dents arc "beautiful young idiots who never
get beyond football talk and oh, yeah?" ac
cording to the Literary Digest of Oct. o. She
said that this is the most important time for
young men everything depends on them.
Granting that Edna Ferber is at least partly
right, whose fault is it that American students
refuse to think except about sports? And even
in sports there is a dearth of real thinking on
the part of players and spectators, in the judg
ment of some football coaches. To a large
extent this scarcity of creative thinking is due
to faults in our educational system. The older
generation has not adequately prepared young
men for this "most important time" and its
complex problems.
Real, creative thinking is frowned upon in
most of our grade schools. Students are ex
pected, not so much to think as to give ba"k
slavishly in recitations and examinations what
has been handed to them by their instructors.
Often if a pupil does not agree with tho in
struction handed out. to him, his grade is
lowered. If he persists in doing some real
thinking of his own, lie is considered a misfit.
American institutions of higher learning arc
breaking away from the idea that only text
book knowledge and that imparted by the in
structor are of value. Students are being
given more lee-way in thinking for themselves.
They are responding well, but they still have
much to accomplish in this direction, as w
shown by the fact that many of them consider
"playing up to an instructor" as of vital im
portance in securing au education. Daily
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awarded and for the one judged
second a prize not exceeding $50
will be given.
Altho competition for these
prizes Is not restricted, It Is nev
ertheless the tradition of the so
ciety that the founder of these
prizes intended them more in the
nature of encouragement to the
younger naturalists than as re
wards for the work of mature in
vestigators. Attention is especially called to,
by the board, to original and un
published work which must be ac
companied by a general review of
the literature of the subject.
UNIVERSITY HOST
TO 200 STUDENTS
IN PRESS SESSION
(Continued from Page 1.)
Financing.
11 o'clock, news writing awards.
11:15 o'clock, business sessions.
12 o'clock, school of journalism
luncheon.
Saturday Afternoon.
Nebraska-Oklahoma f o o t b all
game.
The officers of the Nebraska
high school press association for
the year 1930-31 are: President,
Miss Belle Farman, Lincoln high
school; Vice president, Supt. M. E.
Boren, Sargent hlph school; secre
tary-treasurer, Miss Lucille Scott,
Albion high school.
Perhaps the most important
event of the convention will be the
news writing contest to be hold at
nine o'clock this morning, Mr.
Walker opined. Each high school
Is entitled to two entries, one boy
and one girl. The contest papers
will be read by alumni of Sigma
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Not the Truth but the Search
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